mikejrice's 30 Gallon Innovative Marine Nuvo Reef

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Sorry one more q on your lighting, what's the distance between the top of the tank and the light?


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It's 2 1/2 off the water angled in a bit from the front.

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That's pretty close. Are you doing so to achieve a certain coverage or PAR reading? I'm new to the controller world and I thought LPS are easy and hardy enough to avoid the need of dosing pump and control. Any comment on that? Also, need your advice on phosphate control..., how are you doing it? Thanks!


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That's pretty close. Are you doing so to achieve a certain coverage or PAR reading?
I tinkered with it in the beginning and that just turned out to be the best position over the tank.

I'm new to the controller world and I thought LPS are easy and hardy enough to avoid the need of dosing pump and control. Any comment on that?
There's a pretty wide range of care requirements when it comes to LPS corals. Some like lobophyllia, candy canes, euphyllia, and a few others can be kept pretty easily with simple water changes, but there are others like chalice, scolymia, acanthophyllia that do much better with more constant water parameters that can really only be had through dosing.

Also, need your advice on phosphate control..., how are you doing it?
I run a refugium on this tank, but other than that, I don't do anything to counter Phosphate or Nitrate.

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I thought I knew LPS pretty well until I started running into phosphate prob when I started feeding them LPS specific food. Sorry if you may have covered this already, what is your feeding schedule like?


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I thought I knew LPS pretty well until I started running into phosphate prob when I started feeding them LPS specific food. Sorry if you may have covered this already, what is your feeding schedule like?


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I feed frozen food usually every day, live phyto once a week and I feed pellets directly to the coral once a week.

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Nice western Aussie scoly.


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Never heard that term, but I'm curious to hear more. When I got it, I was told its a button scolymia which I also hadn't heard of. Do you have any info or links to info?

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